If you have last-minute Christmas shopping to complete, how about purchasing a package of cigarettes?
That was the message in this commercial in the Dec. 1953 Christmas edition of the classic radio show "Dragnet." Seems shocking by today's standards, doesn't it?
Here's the link to 41 seconds of audio closing the Christmas program titled "Big Little Jesus."
Click hear to listen via SoundCloud Just click on the orange "play" arrow.
Cigarette advertising was huge years ago, particularly on radio and television. They touted health benefits, and sex appeal. But a ban in 1971 put an end to all of that.
Another old commercial I heard recently from the "golden days" of radio said the tobacco company hired "a doctor" to do a study of cigarette users and found no health problems at all. One can only imagine what kinds of revelations future generations will learn about unhealthy things we're doing now.
As a footnote, Jack Webb, the creative force both on and off-screen for "Dragnet," died in 1982 of a heart attack at age 62.
That was the message in this commercial in the Dec. 1953 Christmas edition of the classic radio show "Dragnet." Seems shocking by today's standards, doesn't it?
Here's the link to 41 seconds of audio closing the Christmas program titled "Big Little Jesus."
Click hear to listen via SoundCloud Just click on the orange "play" arrow.
Cigarette advertising was huge years ago, particularly on radio and television. They touted health benefits, and sex appeal. But a ban in 1971 put an end to all of that.
Another old commercial I heard recently from the "golden days" of radio said the tobacco company hired "a doctor" to do a study of cigarette users and found no health problems at all. One can only imagine what kinds of revelations future generations will learn about unhealthy things we're doing now.
As a footnote, Jack Webb, the creative force both on and off-screen for "Dragnet," died in 1982 of a heart attack at age 62.
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